Die Rolle der Ernährung in der Kleintierpraxis

Background Increased interest in nutrition by dog and cat owners stresses the importance of providing tailored nutritional guidance for each patient by veterinarians. The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) has provided guidelines to help veterinarians implement this in every‐day patient care, by screening patients for the presence of nutritional risk factors, establishing tailored nutritional plans and providing adequate patient follow‐up tools. Objectives This study aimed to assess the use of nutritional assessments in companion animal practices, and to investigate differences between Dutch and Belgian veterinarians. Methods A survey was conducted among Dutch and Belgian veterinarians. Of the 423 respondents, 53% were from Belgium, and 47% were from the Netherlands. Results Only 21% had prior knowledge of the WSAVA nutritional assessment guidelines. General trends in the usage of nutritional assessments were similar in the examined countries. Aside from weighing, diet evaluation by collecting dietary information and body condition or muscle condition scoring were used infrequently, mostly due to insufficient knowledge of the methods. Nutritional recommendations were often made as part of a treatment plan, and were mostly made by veterinarians, but in Dutch practices also by veterinary nurses. Conclusion Despite the fact that nutritional recommendations are a regular part of treatment plans, nutritional risk factors may be missed due to a lack of completely performed nutritional assessments. It remains important to promote the benefits of regular nutritional assessments to veterinarians, which will improve patients’ health.

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Nutritional consulting in regular veterinary practices in Belgium and the Netherlands

Blees

Vandendriessche

Corbee

et al. 2021

Veterinary Medicine & Sci

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Survey on the role of nutrition in first‐opinion practices in Austria and Germany: An evaluation of knowledge, preferences and need for further education

Bruckner¹,

Handl²

2020

Animal Physiology Nutrition

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Nutrition is a popular and often emotional topic among dog owners, which rather rely on information from the Internet or from lay people, like breeders, dog trainers, pet shop assistants or other dog owners (Handl, Zimmermann, & Iben, 2012) than from veterinarians. The image of commercial dog food has suffered over the last years from rumours and conspiracy theories about low-quality ingredients and negative health effects, spread mainly on social media, but also in the daily press and books (Grimm, 2007;Ziegler, 2016). There is a strong tendency to regard dogs as "little wolves on the sofa" although they have adapted to human lifestyle over the last thousands of years and even changed their digestive physiology (Axelsson et al., 2013). Thus, marketing strategies using these clichés and emotionalized pictures have become popular (e.g. to avoid unpopular wording like "additives"; Gerstner & Liesegang, 2018).On the other hand, homemade diets and especially raw feeding (Biologically Appropriate Raw Feeding [BARF]) are on the rise, entailing not only risks for both owners and pets alike (Dillitzer, Becker,

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Die Rolle der Ernährung in der Kleintierpraxis

Abstract: Although the importance of nutrition is clear, only some of the veterinary surgeons perform consulting on a regular basis. In particular, in case of an existing indication, a nutrition consulting is advisable to ensure maximum success of treatment.

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Nutritional consulting in regular veterinary practices in Belgium and the Netherlands

Nutritional consulting in regular veterinary practices in Belgium and the Netherlands

Survey on the role of nutrition in first‐opinion practices in Austria and Germany: An evaluation of knowledge, preferences and need for further education

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